Wednesday, Edwarda O'Bara died after spending 42 years in a coma; O'Bara was taken care of at home by her family in Miami Gardens, Florida who never game up home that she would someday wake up. O'Bara was 16 in 1970 when she went into a diabetic coma; she became sick from her medication. Her mother Kaye said that just before she slipped into the comma she asked her to never leave her side and they didn't.

mongbiohazard:Well it's a good thing they kept her on life support for 42 years. It all worked out so well!

Let's be fair tho', there are people out there who can walk and talk but really aren't much more conscious than this woman was. (And just think, if you were to kill one of them you would go to jail! That's democracy for you.)

Hey you caught me in a comaAnd I don't think I wannaEver come back to this...world againKinda like it in a coma'Cause no one's ever gonnaOh, make me come back to this...world againNow I feel as if I'm floating awayI can't feel all the pressureAnd I like it this wayBut my body's callin'My body's callin'Won't ya come back to this...world againSuspended deep in a sea of blackI've got the light at the endI've got the bones on the mastWell I've gone sailin',I've gone sailin'I could leave so easilyWhile friends are calling back to meI said they'reThey're leaving it all up to meWhen all I needed was clarityAnd someone to tell meWHAT THE fark IS GOING ONGODDAMN IT!

A song was written about the family as well called "My Blessed Child."

OK, here's the thing. I don't think that families in situations like this should fall into despair, should lie prostate with grief. But, seriously, she was in a coma for 42 years. How the fark was she blessed?

A song was written about the family as well called "My Blessed Child."

OK, here's the thing. I don't think that families in situations like this should fall into despair, should lie prostate with grief. But, seriously, she was in a coma for 42 years. How the fark was she blessed?

hbk72777:Hey you caught me in a comaAnd I don't think I wannaEver come back to this...world againKinda like it in a coma'Cause no one's ever gonnaOh, make me come back to this...world againNow I feel as if I'm floating awayI can't feel all the pressureAnd I like it this wayBut my body's callin'My body's callin'Won't ya come back to this...world againSuspended deep in a sea of blackI've got the light at the endI've got the bones on the mastWell I've gone sailin',I've gone sailin'I could leave so easilyWhile friends are calling back to meI said they'reThey're leaving it all up to meWhen all I needed was clarityAnd someone to tell meWHAT THE fark IS GOING ONGODDAMN IT!

A song was written about the family as well called "My Blessed Child."

OK, here's the thing. I don't think that families in situations like this should fall into despair, should lie prostate with grief. But, seriously, she was in a coma for 42 years. How the fark was she blessed?

A song was written about the family as well called "My Blessed Child."

OK, here's the thing. I don't think that families in situations like this should fall into despair, should lie prostate with grief. But, seriously, she was in a coma for 42 years. How the fark was she blessed?

and what point do you just pull the plug? honestly 42years in a coma is not what i would call a blessed life.

A song was written about the family as well called "My Blessed Child."

OK, here's the thing. I don't think that families in situations like this should fall into despair, should lie prostate with grief. But, seriously, she was in a coma for 42 years. How the fark was she blessed?

42 years in a coma is way too long. At some point they should have let her go. Does anyone know how much money it takes to care for a coma patient? Per year or month?

My boyfriend jokingly said that if he was in a coma, I could pull the plug after 42 years. I told him that one year is a good enough waiting period. Provided that there isn't a huge amount of brain ischemia that makes it extremely unlikely that I will ever wake up or that I will wake up without severe brain damage and mental retardation. Even if there is a relatively low amount of damage, if it's enough to lower my IQ to 100 or less I won't want to wake up. My whole life is based on academia and being much more intelligent than most people. I would also loathe being so disabled that I have to be taken care of. That sounds depressing but I am quite fine, and it's very unlikely that I'll go into a coma. So I will keep doing what I love: studying science in general and biology in particular.

If she had any sort of consciousness or self awareness for those 42 years I can't image more a horrible hell then she had to endure. Imagine spending 42 years not knowing if you're awake or dreaming come to think of it if she had her eye open and her visual cortex was working that would actually be worse because you would know what's going on all the time but unable to do anything

Let just hope she was brain dead during this whole ordeal.

But I digress. Which is the error in the article, the wrong video or the wrong story?

Krieghund:I can't say I'd do anything differently. But I can say it would be self indulgent if I were to keep my kid alive in a coma for 42 years.

I'd say to her that I was going to do whatever it took to keep her alive forever and then a nurse would tell me how much life support costs and I would immediately pull the nearest plug out of the wall and yell "Check please!" And my daughter would probably wake up right then. Laughter is the best medicine.